NASA's rover project has by all accounts been a massive success, but it has had one limitation - the rovers all travel very slowly on land. Swarms of robot bees could fan out and explore the surface from a wide range of perspectives.

A graphic video posits a scary future in which swarms of killer microdrones are dispatched to kill activists and lawmakers. Armed with explosive charges, the palm-sized drones use real-time data mining and artificial intelligence to find their targets.

Yikes!! The quarter-sized RoboBee looks like a fly, designed to save us from colony collapse disorder. If the bees die, we have a robot backup. Not science fiction, I wish it was. If Monsanto unleash a "franken"ant to pollinate crops there is this!!

Nine years ago, Dennis Aabo Sørensen severely wounded his left arm in a fireworks accident, and had to have it amputated. Now, a bionic hand has restored his ability to feel, the first time this has been reported in a scientific journal.

On Saturday at a NASCAR track in Florida, a humanoid robot named SCHAFT, created by a team of engineers from the University of Tokyo, performed a series of emergency tasks including using a hose, drilling a hole into a wall, walking through doors...

Robot falcons. Bam. That was the sound of your head exploding because of how cool that is. Sadly, they're not exactly the screeching machines of death from above we've been envisioning (and secretly raising funds for) for years, but they are pretty cool.

Everyone knows that technology has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, but the robotics industry has been making huge strides right along with it. In fact, some strides have been so large that people like Farhad Manjoo wrote an article in Slate

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